One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINThere is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
More Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
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Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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When a place gets crowded enough to require ID’s, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere.
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The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.
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I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
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When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.
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One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
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Don’t ever become a pessimist… a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.
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Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.
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The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
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An armed society is a polite society.
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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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